Since announcing a beta tool last year allowing self-published authors to generate AI "virtual voice" narrations for their ebooks, over 40,000 AI-narrated titles have flooded onto Audible,...

I definitely do not want to support this practice, but there’s no way to filter these out 😠.

  • Lmaydev@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    That’s how automation works. It’s just a fact of technological advancement.

    If people will happily listen to it and it’s way cheaper it’s going to happen I’m afraid.

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I agree on the technological advancement, but automating human creativity and emotion (yes, there’s definitely a degree of creativity in voice acting) is a bridge too far for me. An AI-narrated audiobook automatically loses 3 stars on the review lol.